15 Mar 2020COVID-19: All the latest updates for Employees and Employers
The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection have just announced that their dedicated phone line for COVID-19 payment queries is open from the 17th of March, from 9am to 5pm.
Call: 01-2481398 / 1890-800-024
A dedicated Help Line set up for businesses around COVID-19 has also been set up.
Call: +353 1 631 2002
• Govt announces National COVID-19 Income Support Scheme - Emergency pandemic payment will increase from €203 to €350. Workers who have lost their jobs due to the crisis will receive an enhanced emergency COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment of €350 per week (an increase from €203). Get all the details here.
• Employees and Self Employed: How to apply for Jobseeker's Payment? COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment - Emergency Payment for Employees and the Self Employed - is now available. Apply here.
• An Post to pay two weeks' social welfare benefit to customers from Monday the 23rd of March. Important additional information:
- How to direct your social welfare payments to your bank account?
- How to nominate a temporary agent to collect your social welfare payments?
Get all the details on the above here.
• I am unable to print forms to claim for social welfare payments?
Request a Form By Post - This email address is only for application forms. Email: forms@welfare.ie
• Answers to frequently asked questions relating to Students, Part-Time Workers, Childcare Workers, People Abroad. Get all the answers here.
• Unable to collect social welfare payments? An Post will allow you to nominate someone to collect your welfare payment. Get all the details here.
• Has your work week been cut short? Short-time Work Support Payment is now available. Details here.
• Workers who are diagnosed with COVID-19 - How to apply for illness benefit?
• Learn about your employment rights during COVID-19 restrictions here.
• Have you been Laid-off or made redundant? Everything you need to know here.
• Workers whose employers do not supplement the State Illness Benefit payment
• Have you been requested to stay at home by your employer due to COVID-19? Here's what you need to know.
• Working from home? You claim tax relief for lighting, heat and broadband. Get the details here.
• Help for workers who are laid off temporarily or put on to short time working
• Workers who need to take time off to care for person affected by COVID-19
• Support for your business: Learn about all of the Government supports for COVID-19 impacted businesses here.
• I am unable to print forms to claim for social welfare payments?
Request a Form By Post
This email address is only for application forms.
Email: forms@welfare.ie
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